This is the time! They are already shooting at us right now The military are already shooting at us right now But we are not backing down I’m here. You can hear the gunshots I’m hear to die for something! - a Nigerian youth When Nigeria’s military shot into the…

An all-girls boarding school is rife with slices of all the rumours that make the rounds : mean girls, cliques, lesbianism, out-of-school parties. It is also where personalities, some which may never feature again, shine the brightest. I remember how the girls within mixed gendered schools seemed quiet, and toned…

Even before my distaste for the workings of organised religion became self evident, I hated those pointy, triangle-shaped headscarves often donned by young Catholic girls. …

Beginnings and endings have one thing in common: they both have the potential to become comfort zones. In-between stages, sometimes also known as that awkward phase in natural hair, growth, and ultimately, life, offer no such niceties. In a country where navigating inconveniences is a way of life, home tries…

I’m seated at the edge of my bed, waiting for the end of the world. It’s mid-April and the sweltering heat in Lagos has turned everything into an inescapable heat trap. In Westeros, the fictional world of George R. R. Martin’s HBO-copped Game of Thrones, however, the battle scheduled to…

With the dawn of the new year came the reflections, promises, and the offerings of resolutions. I could almost see the prayers and requests go up in a billowing smoke towards the clouds, enticing whatever god you believed and worshipped. I could only pray for a sense of direction. A…

This night was crazy. So there I was, about to set off when the rain starts to fall heavily. I’m in Lekki — 7:50 pm, grateful that I have my umbrella today as I quickly dash under a moment of subsidence. …

The first time I experienced an out-of-body experience, I was a teenager who had just been knocked out somewhat-lukewarm from falling face flat to the patchy concrete floor of our SS1 classroom. I watched my classmates from across the field carry my half-conscious body to the dispensary to do what…

The first thing I noticed when I woke up in Abuja was my renewed eagerness to wake up in the morning to go for a brisk walk in the cool morning air. In the past months, it has felt obligatory — stressful even — to go for a walk, run…